The Ultrabook with Wicked Graphics - Blade Stealth GTX

[AlexTheGreatish]

The Razer Blade Stealth is pretty good, but do you know what could make it better? MORE POWER!

 

Buy : Razer Blade Stealth GTX
On Amazon: https://geni.us/t4D1O
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVjx

 

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

 

[SenKa]

I would imagine the reason the arrow keys were not dropped would be so that some people  wouldn't hit left, down, or right while shifting their hand up to either avoid the sharp edge, or to hit a key in the top right corner of the keyboard. Older small thinkpads (X201T comes to mind immediately) had this issue in my experience. Is it a design flaw meant to fix a design flaw? Yes. Is it dumb? Yes.

 

I personally have used weirder keyboard layouts than the one shown in the video, I have pictured my secondary keyboard here as an example. I dont think it would have bugged me for more than a couple minutes, but Linus is a lot pickier than I am when it comes to keyboards. (The pictured keyboard is quite old now, vintage MX Blacks are fantastic to type on if well maintained. I have the same keyboard but made smaller without the trackpad, which was not well maintained, and it feels like typing on sand.)

 

 

[sub68]

I always wanted a razer blade for editing and I think they are macbooks on steroids

[Guest]

I think it's funny that all of these people are saying that they've never used right shift, Linus probably just goes by the rules of touch typing where you hit the shift with the opposite pinky of the hand you're typing with

[AlexTheGreatish]

2 minutes ago, hiitswilliam said:

I think it's funny that all of these people are saying that they've never used right shift, Linus probably just goes by the rules of touch typing where you hit the shift with the opposite pinky of the hand you're typing with

I also thought that I didn't use it very often until I used butt-tier keyboard layouts like the Stealth and Helios 700 - turns out I actually use it a lot.

[Luscious]

Stupid laptop keyboards are an absolute deal-breaker for me and have been the case since Clevo began pushing their dysfunctional layout. Check out the old 17" HP ZD7000 from circa 2003 - even back then they had the hindsight to do an isolated inverted T cursor key arrangement and a proper 4 column number pad.

 

Moving down to a 13 inch form factor will knock that numpad out of the discussion but it is still possible to get a good keyboard layout done. Dell, HP and even the old Toshiba 13 inch models had REALLY GOOD keyboard layouts that didn't compromise when it came to shift key placement or cursor key usage. Those notebook manufacturers who don't do it right simply choose so because THEY ARE CHEAP and can't be bothered to put in the extra effort.

[Otto_iii]

I think this is cool for a compact and light laptop, premium design, but why would i not recommend something like a Asus TUF FX505DT over this for a actual friend?  At half the price and with a display at twice the refresh of this i doubt they'd be angry at me for doing so if it was a pure gaming laptop.  If not a direct comparison, one would still be interested in thoughts about cheaper gaming laptops with similar modern hardware like that.

[DoctorNick]

Wicked for bloodclaat

[Geoff35674567]

added to the list of things i cant afford

[Results45]

On 12/10/2019 at 11:52 AM, AlexTheGreatish said:

The Razer Blade Stealth is pretty good, but do you know what could make it better? MORE POWER!

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Buy : Razer Blade Stealth GTX
On Amazon: https://geni.us/t4D1O
On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KVjx

 

Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.

 

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Ya know what's even better than making the Blade Stealth better? Buying a superior gaming ultrabook!

 

Presenting.........the Eluktronics MAG-15:

 

More info & reviews:

• https://www.amazon.com/Eluktronics-MAG-15-GeForce-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B07X9B18B8/?tag=linus21-20
• https://www.eluktronics.com/MAG-15

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The downsides (in comparison to the Blade Stealth GTX):

• It's an extra pound heavier at 4.15 pounds.
• Slightly bigger chassis due to a higher capacity battery, a mechanical keyboard, a larger screen, and a beefier graphics card.

What you gain ~ at the same price range:

• A 144hz 1080p display
• GTX 1660TI or RTX 2070 MAX-Q
• An extra of each of these ports: USB-A, 3.5mm jack, HDMI, SD card reader, & RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet Port
• 6-Core i7-9750H (twice the TDP & higher boost of 4.5Ghz)
• up to 64GB RAM (user-upgradable)
• up 2TB NVMe SSD (user-upgradable)
• 94Wh battery (41Wh more)
• mechanical keyboard

 

IMHO the extra pound and slight bulk worth it totally over the Razer Blade Stealth GTX. 

[ShredBird]

I've had the new Razer Blade 13 GTX model for about a month now. I also use the left shift key exclusively so that really doesn't affect me. I also don't rest my palms on the laptop when typing,. I also haven't had any trouble with the smaller backspace key I generally leave them floating so the sharp edge doesn't really bother me either.

 

As for the turbo clocks., it really depends on the load. If it's something that uses a lot of AVX then Intel turbos are kind of weird, but I've definitely thrown some engineering applications at it and it maintains 3.00 GHz all core boost at 100% load. If I go into device manager and disable the GTX 1650, I can maintain a 3.50 GHz all-core boost. I think the firmware reverts to 25 W if it thinks the dedicated GPU isn't present. This works perfect for me, if I know I need to leave my laptop to do a CPU heavy export it's not a big deal to open up device manager and get a little more juice.

 

Really where this laptop shines is portability. You can get a lot more bang for your buck in terms of spec elsewhere (see @Results45 post), but if you travel a lot like me and really prefer a portable form factor and want to do some decent gaming on the go, it's hard to beat.

Weirdly, also really like Dolby Atmos on these speakers. The frequency response of these speakers isn't spectacular or anything but it does really widen up the sense of space and eerily does have a convincing surround effect at times.

[Penguiin]

Hi everyone,

I would like to ask for some advice. I'm between two laptops. The Razer Stealth GTX and the new Dell XPS 13 with the 6 cores CPU. My main purpose is video editing (especially 4k) and portability. Render time is not my worry, rather I'm more concerned with the editing experience. I'm not a pro video editor, but I'd like to use Davinci Resolve for editing. In this case idk what matters more, the CPU cores or having a GPU. Also, could someone tell me which one these should matter more?

 

Thank you for your help in advance

[Timbo96]

On 1/22/2020 at 10:42 PM, Penguiin said:

Hi everyone,

I would like to ask for some advice. I'm between two laptops. The Razer Stealth GTX and the new Dell XPS 13 with the 6 cores CPU. My main purpose is video editing (especially 4k) and portability. Render time is not my worry, rather I'm more concerned with the editing experience. I'm not a pro video editor, but I'd like to use Davinci Resolve for editing. In this case idk what matters more, the CPU cores or having a GPU. Also, could someone tell me which one these should matter more?

 

Thank you for your help in advance

The answer is not easy. I Would say both. DaVinci Resolve benefits from more then 4 CPU Cores and a strong GPU with CUDA-Cores. I have the feeling the CPU helps you a lot with the playback speed on your timeline, the GPU should have an stronger effect on the rendering time. But like i said, both are important.

 

With the 2020 update of the Razer Blade Stealth 13 i made my decision to go with it, because the CPU will be 25W and the GPU will get an upgrade to 1650 Ti. I will not use it as my main editing device, for that i have an Ryzen Desktop PC. But during movie productions and go from one location to another and spending every night in another hotel, you beg for every gram less and want the power to edit on the go and play a game to relax at night. Theres nothing like the razer stealth. If you dont care about the look, you should go with the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 ... but honestly, i would never put an gaming Laptop on the table sitting with clients ... it automatically looks like you prefer to play instead of work. The Stealth 13 looks like an matte black macbook, so totally legit.

[drumn_bass]

I picked up a Razer Blade Stealth 13 (Late 2019) about a week ago, and so far it's everything I wanted in a laptop. I tried Alienware M15 R1 and Asus Rog Zephyrus G first, and while both had some great features and maybe even more power (AW for sure, not so sure about the Rog), neither was the entire package I was looking for. Razer is powerful enough, much quieter than AW and Rog, and much cooler too. The screen is better, and the battery life is of course better. Yes, the AW was much more powerful, but it ran too hot and was too loud, plus it had a serious coil whine issue. The Rog had a faster screen at 120Hz, but the image quality was not as good, and overall the laptop was too plasticy and cheap feeling. And it was also loud, though not as hot as the AW. Anyway, with this Razer I got what I wanted without too many compromises. I always have a very hard time finding a perfect product for me, but at this time, I think this Razer might be it.